She really liked this cake even though it is not homemade. We are renovating the kitchen and I am not baking anything these days. Naturally those things take longer than you expect they will and the whole thing is making Natalie's planned birthday party farther and farther from her actual birthday. It will be Paris themed though. Natalie wants to learn French and go to Paris.
Dealing with an unfinished kitchen has been challenging and not in a fun way. It is going to look nice, but at the moment it feels like I would rather we had just left it alone. But I realized that suffering during a home renovation is a 1st world problem - or a 1st world self inflicted suffering, that is - it is difficult to live through, but 2nd and 3rd world people don't do kitchen renovations and generally their suffering doesn't end with a new backsplash, extra pantry storage, and properly wired outlets.
